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Operating a Bike Share Scheme involves managing complex logistics in a constantly changing environment. Cities offer new challenges every day that need to be overcome. No two days are likely to be the same with transportation playing a central role in how citizens experience a city.

For Bike Share Scheme operators, simplifying how they manage their schemes is crucial for their success. The complexities that come with distribution and management of bikes across a city can be resource-intensive while not delivering an optimised rider experience. This is a pain-point for many operators and as schemes grow they become difficult to manage.

When bikes are efficiently distributed across a scheme, it ensures that citizens can access bikes and docks when they need them, drives ridership growth, and ensures the overall health of the scheme. By focusing on simplifying the management of a Bike Share Scheme, operators can benefit from:

Cost efficiencies

Effective resource management

Easy scalability

Faster decision making

At Stage Intelligence, we use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help operators focus on simplicity and maximise the potential of their Bike Share Schemes. Our BICO platform gives operators recommendations on where to distribute Bikes using AI. It uses data from across the scheme to recognise where bikes should be placed based on thousands of criteria all in real-time.

Through a simple mobile app distribution trucks are told where to go to pick bikes up while managers at a central office have a full view of the scheme. This reduces time dedicated to decision-making while increasing visibility into docks, bikes and distribution trucks. It puts valuable data into the hands of the operator.

Operators can gain cost and resource efficiencies as distribution of staff, bikes and other resources are optimised to reduce cost and time wastage. This provides the building blocks for scalability and the growth of the scheme.

Effective management should always look to combine all these elements and deliver transparency and data that is easy to consume. This enables operators to analyse and predict various aspects of the schemes and implement decisions faster.

For Bike Share Schemes in particular, effective management can determine the success of the entire program. The common misconception is that all it takes is an investment in bikes and the provision of docking stations for a scheme to work. But simple and effective management is behind every successful scheme around the world.

The outcome of a simplified and easy to understand management model is a healthy Bike Share Scheme that has maximised efficiencies and optimised operations.

To find out more about how Stage Intelligence uses Artificial Intelligence to simplify management for Bike Share Scheme operators, please contact tom.nutley@stageintelligence.co.uk